ARCHIVED JULY 6TH, 2024
Why Private Lessons?
Private music education offers learners discipline and adventure—while so often our schools are designed around testing declarative information, music lessons are a place where we acquire a skill that can flourish in different ways for different learners. Under my instruction, you or your child will learn to play and to practice, which creates a safe, rewarding, and strictly academic place to strengthen focus, self-esteem, and resilience.
Can I study with you?
I am currently not accepting any more weekly students, but if you would like to join my waiting list, need help with an audition, or would like help finding a music teacher right away, please contact me through my email listed below! I am literally thrilled to help you on your musical journey!
Can you help me teach?
Yes! Music education is an enormous team-sport and I am extremely dedicated to helping people teach successfully. The secret to a successful studio is tools that allow us to revisit the basics with excitement and ease. In the complicated landscape of technology and shortened-attention spans families now face, it is so important that those of us trained in musical literacy enliven and defend the teachings of this sacred and ancient craft to pass it on to the next generation, even as it gets more and more difficult to prove its importance to students, parents, and institutions every year.
If you are an administrator at a music school or someone trying to build their studio, these tools are for you! The truth is, the competitive studios of more seasoned teachers as well as music departments at universities and colleges everywhere are made possible by the people engaging students in music at elementary ages. Charter school systems specialize study earlier and earlier which takes arts away from kids who have not been exposed to it; tween and teenage attention is much more difficult to keep nowadays as they can be extremely discouraged without a foundational knowledge; and finding a place to connect with children through literacy is getting harder and harder for families to do. We must fight to keep music in children’s lives, and I believe with the proper tools and texts, we can teach truly high level artistry at every age! Accordingly, I offer 3 products for fellow teachers and schools.
Products for Teachers & Schools
Lauren Michelle Acoba’s Mindful Music Curriculum
This curriculum is one that takes students through their beginning and intermediate stages of study with an emphasis on reading and writing through penmanship practice. This curriculum includes materials that are designed for flute or piano students, but we can work together and adapt it to any instrument.
Most importantly, this curriculum includes a lesson planning system tied to an invoicing system using Notion that allows you to be an effective entrepreneur and teacher all at once.
The Magic Music Mystery Box
This box is a collection of toys and flashcards including a large magnetic grand staff on a white board that children can manipulate with their hands in a play-time fashion. These tools break down all aspects of music literacy into digestible, memorable, and engaging pieces so children as young as 3 can begin their literacy journey within an academic and goal-oriented setting that can make “music play-time” sessions more productive and worth your time as a teacher as well as a long-term valuable service to your clients. This box transitions into the Music for Little Mozarts curriculum whenever the child’s hands and attention span are ready for lessons.
The Magic Music History Box
This box contains 76 five-minute-stories appropriate for children in pre-school and elementary age groups. The stories are accompanied with creative coloring or writing activities depending on the age of your students. All information in this box is taken from A History of Western Music, to help us as teachers and students remember that music making is meaning making. We must continuously study the enormous and complicated web of human beings who carried this craft to us to develop a grounded, authentic perspective in our own hearts and minds as well as our students’.
If you are a teacher in charge of your own studio: these tools are not hard to make when you are the only one using them, and you can start with simple versions of them which you develop on your own using an old shoe box and notecards! I promise they will transform your weekly experience and grow your studio. I hope I’ve included enough information here that you can feel encouraged to explore making your own, but you can hire me to help you if you need.
If you are an administrator at a music school: you can hire me to develop these curriculums specifically for your school using the rooms, boards, and teaching instruments in which you have already invested. Teaching tools need to be translated differently through each program depending on your current clientele’s interests and instruments as well as your staff’s individual abilities to perform. I redesign these tools on a case-by-case basis, and over the course of a 12-week program of remote lessons wherein we will turn your staff into a team of educators who can communicate with each other, sub for each other, and meet your clients with excitement and ease through aligning curriculum goals and standardizing repertoire and texts. This is a beautiful way to build communication and teamwork amongst your staff, which can be difficult to foster in store-front music studios, all while delivering top-notch music literacy education.